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- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?
CVP, and in what direction. Using CVP in the business world Importantly, the authors tested whether the model applied to two key contexts: media and entertainment, and business. They used profile images crawled from LinkedIn to compare...
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by Kara Baskin
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
successful rescue. Yet they failed to save anybody. Based on the recollections and daily situational reports of Commodore David Russell, who headed the Royal Navy's rescue mission, the case explores how and why this failure-a classic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Clayton M. Christensen and Tara DonovanHarvard Business School Case 610-065 Bill Hambrecht faces a dilemma: should he accept a high profile client for his online Dutch auction IPO? Though it would be viewed as a real coup, what would...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
one of-- in all four accounts every day. Your family, your friends, your work that serves other people, and your faith. And by by faith, as Oprah just indicated, that means something transcendent to your daily life. Look, if you're, if...
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by HBS Staff
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
and daily income for 2,118 properties in seven US cities between 2015 and 2017. The researchers found that among all hosts who used the algorithm, the real-time price adjustments increased demand and revenue. Although hosts who used the...
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- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
33 more are planned to launch this year. Like Mercadona, a Spanish supermarket chain that Ton profiled in a case last year, QuikTrip systematically makes operating decisions that are good for employees, customers, and profits, she says....
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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
early twentieth century. It is a story, in part, about how fortune telling was professionalized. Unlike Adams, whose insights into the future rested on her purported ability to read the stars, the entrepreneurs profiled here were...
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by Walter A. Friedman
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
watch a series of real, crime-related videos (while the control group watches non-crime-related videos). Not previously victimized participants exposed to the treatment video show significant changes in cortisol level, heart rate, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
particular skills and needs. People with ASD may also have little preparation or capacity for the common social interactions required on a daily basis at work. As Sonne and his family adapted to life raising their son, the nature of...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
which our faculty provide. EE: What is the typical profile of the group? Hart: The single defining characteristic of our participants is that they have achieved a position of extraordinary responsibility and recognition in their industry...
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Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
a difficult step for many organizations to take. Q: Which of the companies that you profiled continue to shine today? Any notable exemplars from the past that have lost their way? A: Identifying exemplar organizations is somewhat...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
make the best use of their time by providing logistical and research support, establishing contacts with leading CEOs in the region, and sharing expertise that comes from living and working in the Asian environment on a daily basis."...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
lending in this market. Traditional bank loans may yield a return of 5 to 7 percent, but many alternative lending platforms charge yields ranging from 30 to 120 percent of the loan value, depending on the size, term duration, and risk View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
performance including population density, financial development, and geographic connectedness. We also explore the impact of social structure measured by slavery and religion. We then profile the characteristics of inventors and their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
members about their perceptions of individual surgeons’ leadership effectiveness and correlated survey measures with individual surgeon profiles created by calculating percentage of behavior types, leader functions, and valence. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
that help people solve problems in their daily lives. That investment focus on manufacturing would go against the private equity trend, another factor he considered. But he knew few, if any, general partners at major private equity firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
of people's daily lives, say Rangan and Chu of Harvard Business School and Petkoski of the World Bank. Start by dividing the base of the pyramid into three segments according to people's earnings and related personal needs: 1) Low income:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is...
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Martha Lagace